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r; .~«....~.~ • , tas L ONDb IV G dZETTe EXTRAORDIN4RY. TlitnitOdv, JAN. 21, 1 S4B. _ Downing-streei, - Jan. 1808. Captain Murphy, or the 88th Regiment, Drilede Vajor a his Majesty's Forces at Madeira, has_ar rived at the. Office or Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretnries of State, with a Dispatch, of which the following is an E x traa, from Major.Geperal lieresfOrd, dated M‘a:lira, December 2 9, 1 B 07: • ratrael'of a - Dispatch from Major-General Beres. ford to Vis Count 'Castlereagh, dated Madeira, Funehal; December 29;-1897.: ' • , I have the totisfatlititi , to- Cotrittinniote to yoir, Lordship the Set render of Nand-of Albiticita,.on the 24th inst. to Majesty's ArntS.: ' We had, preiionily to thi•Ships , comitg to chor,. sent to the Governor tclintrtinder• tits Island • to his Britannic Majesty; . offeriqfhe t6rras: \live were authorized" .which ;vete • acceded to. The trobps, were._ immediately landed, a!rld betbre dark were in poisessiOn of, all the fortg, atid.had the 3d and uth ReTiments encainpt'd, with their tield-pieces, the wot, of the town. .". In regard to Unanimity and cordial co•operation,' it, is sufficient to f,6r it was Sir Samuel Hood , I had. to aet`• with and the , otijea the ' service of his country ardent zeal communicated. to all- Abe tamp , SentiffientS, gild the Utmost •unanitnity . I bad the fullest reason to be satisfied with the zeal and ardour of all the Otiiccrs and troops under my urdeta.''. I hire the honour to inclose the Anticlea,pf-Capi tulation which have been agreed upcitt: CaPtain Murphy, of the Rilth Major to the Forces, 'will be the bearer,:2and calf communicate any further particulars your . Lordship, may be desirous' Of knowing'; - hunibly:reCom-' mend ,him to. his 'Majesty's Most graciouS• cOnside , ration.' T tt MS of CAPITULATION for : the island of Maneir g i . • and its Dependencies, agreed upon by his : Ex ce ll ency t h e Governor and Captant-Gencral,., Pedro F B agundes acchus (PAntas 9 Menet9s, on the part of his Royal the ; 'Prince Regent of Portugal; and by Rear-Admiral ; Sir S. muellood,Knight of the Bath, and Major.cienoriiißeres. tort, on the part of his Britannic Majesty., Article I. Thit on the signing orate present Treaty, the island of Madeira and its dependencies . shall be delivered. ;up to the .Commanders of his . . Britannic Majesty's Forces, and to 'be beldand . en-', joyttl . by his, said Mkjesty, with - all the .right and pri vileges, and jurisdiaions, which heretofore helonged to the Crown of. Portugal. • . 11, is agreed'the . .said Island shall.be eva cuated, arid , re-delivered to his :Royal . Highness th e „Prince Regent of Portugal,. or to his Heirs and Sue cessors, when they free ingress and egress to the Ports. of Portugal : and its Colonies shall. be re-established tits heretofore ; and when the Sovaeignty of Forth gal shall be emancipated from the controul or,infiii 'glee of France. . 111. For the present, the arms and emmunition'of" all kinds to be delivered and placed under the pos-, session of the' British. IV.. Public property shalt be respeaed and ro. ,delivered'at the same arm, and underibe tome cir— cut:moue 'es, with the Island...BN tannic' Majest during the period his troops shall occupy the Island, reserving. the use of all such property; and the re venues.of the Island, to be applied to the mainte•E Llano of its' Religious ; Civil, and Military Esta- blislanents. For the above'purpos6 - , all the . public property, of Whatever description, to he formally delivered up, and received by the Commimaries 're-i spee.*ely appointed tot that objet; " V. .411 privnie 'property on the Nand of dein, I)elonging to the sub*ts of Hopi High 'tieis the Prince Regent ,of Portugal to . be `spe6WcL VI. The free exercise of religions vitoriihip to, be maintained and proie6ted Its at prtsopt established. NIL 'rho hitbitonts :to rethain its the enjoyment Of the Civil ConstitntiOrt,. and of their Law*:, as 'it present eTnablished and admi i,tere'd. Dune at the l'alitee of St.' Lorenzo . Ma deira, Vith December, lStj7 r , . -unty Eitournins BAbIiLLARD , ANTAS, IVIENERES, GovernadOr e. Capita s. General de Ilha da Madeira. .• SAM. Rudy; A W. C. 1341M5WORDI ildmiraley Oflice, Jim. 23 4 .0301§,` A Dispatch, of which the following.is an extra}, bas been received at thiioflice froth.liear7Adotiral Sir Samdel kfoiid, K. W. .Brc. act. acidie3sed to the Hen. William \Vellebley Pow, dated on,hoard his 11,tjesty'i Ship Centatir, Funchal . Bay, Madeira, 29th lice. 1 etn. . ,12.47traa id'u Diipptch frpm1.44,3-,4dmiral Sir Somidel • Hod, K. ii. &c. 11c. c',l - 11ted kuncitai: Lay, Madeir,a, Q 914 Dec. 1807. . • • • haveithe pleasure to acquaint you; for 66'. intormation of the Lords Cenuntssioners of the Ad miraity, the Island of ISladeirs has atirrendered W Majesty't Forces confided te .f he tornmand of Mai or- Getivol Boresfotd and 'Thyself; and I have the bottom - to-inclose you a Copy of the Articles of Ca . .... pit lila t ion*. . ,The'.Squadron mimed in the margint; 'and trans ports, arrived on the 23d off the Island of Porto Sa n to, and off tins. Bay in the forenoon cif thee4ili and the 'ships were rather ; baffled by the light winds ,under the land, on entering the Bay, every Ship was anchored conformable to my wishes and being placed within a cable's length of the forts, and the •army, ready to disembark, the. troops were inlmethately allowed to land and -take pos4atision•of the print forts: Next day we met the Governor pt the. Palace, of St, Lorenzo; and arranged the Arti des dCapitniation,.whidh were signed on . the efith, . in pNACIle.it Of the Cii l ll and Military Officers of . the 1514 ,1, 11al sivlajor.General Bere&ford will give all other' _particulars relatfre, to the :Island to Iris Majesty's' s , , , crcury .of State,,l shall only add;from the cor dial goo d' understanding that.haysubsisted between us, as - wv .ll as between the whole of the Army and . 1„; ;40 .1., liAd • , there. 41e il, a resistance, every thing we •• • • * Scv. Major.tjentyallicrtil rd's - 91watch. c o lour, York t . m Intrqui, Ac;one, 51 1a/won , Aict . ste , g ird eaecsaa, • . could have desirad was to be ex peaed front both ser- I have to expros my entire satisfaelion of the Captains, Officers:, and Men, of his Majesty's Ships on this service; and send my first Lieutenant, Geo. .1-leliderson wish this dispatCh. He is a very excel lent Officer, and I must refer their Lordships to him fiir inty further information ; Nnci 1 beg 'cage to re commend him to their Lordships' notice. `MAILS. AkxlviD-I Dublib. Dux— 4 Gottenburgh, I Dublin, • 2 Waterford: ' PRXCE OF STOCKS TRI DA . ), AT TWitl e V IV O'CLOCK. Consols tbr Opening - - , T if L.S U N. QU:s rsU**L JALSUM AUDEAT ? TrfURSDAY, JANUARY' '2l; '1 ft6l3. lIIS AL4ASTY's sPEEcII. ~.1 r .. • . 7 : 1118$ Session of Parliament was this day k)pened, by .044tAis.s.ign, when the following Spccch Was de livered by the LORD CHANCELLOR „M. Lon& Gentlemen; • VT" * d e. have receive( ajesty s,‘OIIIIII:HL.,S to LiTl i e tirat in c4lling yOn,together• at this' im portant conjunaure of affairs, he entertains., the most perfect convidion, that he shall. &Id in you the same tletertr.inatlOn with which His Illjesty . hiirkself,isunimatet to uphold the 1 logoiir of His; Crot , M, and the ..jut . Rights and 'lnterests Of His. , People. . ".... ‘‘, We are cerntnanded by His Majesty to, inform you, tit4t no sooner ; had the re.ult!. of the, 7b:.Tego tiations tuntirrned-tlee influence and con troll of France over the . Powers of. the Continent, thn- His m a i ( i s ty`, was appried of the 'intentions of tie Euetuy. to cornbine those 'Powers, in onege neral Confederacy, to be directed` either to the en tire subjugation of this KiuoOlo, or to the impositig upon Bis :Majesty au ini',:curdi and ipogiiniota Peace. " That for thin purpose, it was . detOethiited' tia force into hostility agaiubt Majesty, States which' hid • hitherto' been allowed by ~M.ance to maintain . 6r to purchas,t their Neutrality ; and to 'bring to ,hpar agaitht different points of His Mti:. kesty's Dominions, the whole of the Naval Force of Europe,- Ond 006E11 . .41y the Fleets of Portugal and Denmark. ‘‘ To place thou) Fh..4ets ont of the.powei of uch a Conicdereq, became therefore the indispensible icltypfkiii . Majesty. ' I- " In the execution of tisis Duty, so far as re» kited to the 1 / a ttiih' Fleet, His Majesty has corn mended to . assure you, that it was with t4O deepest roilimancct • that His' Majesty found hint . selfconapelled, after his earnest endeavours to open a 'Negotiation'tvith . the'Dmikh eoverntnept bad to autiitirize his Commanders to resort .to the ex 'tiemity of force, .but. that he hss the gre a t es t sat i s - Jatlion ittanigratulating you upon the . execution of this paiuthl, but necessary service. • We are further , cotumanded.- to acquaint . you, that the cOurse,7which• his MAJIIVI'Y 4ad to' purstie, with resla ct to Portn3al . , was happily of 'a naturp More 'congettial: to his' MAJESTY'S feelings:',• Thb,' timely and- unreserved communication by . the. Cott of-Lisbon Of 'tho demands and designs, of Xi - ape/4 while it confirmed to -His - Majesty - the: authenticity ~o f the Adviees which 1w hod . received font other coariers, entitled that' Court to His Majesty's con fidence in the sincerity of the. assurnuccS by which that cortimunication was accompanied. " Thc Fleet of Tortitol. was destined by,Frinice to he employed as au instrument of vengeance against Oreat Britain. 'That Fleet has' ifeen curt.lfr'?in the grasp of ,Vra9ce, and is how ern '-played in conveying to iti American,pornini9ni the., hopes: and fortunes of the Porttlguese -Monarchy. Majesty implores the protc&iun of DiOne;Pitt ',vidence upon that enternrize, rejoicing ;11 t,lO nor set vation of t yower so long the Frielid-and Allyof Great 7Britain, and in•the.prosPeet of its tistablisli ment in The New World with augnieptecl strength and sPlendour. , . " Wa it in command from Ibis Majesty,to inform you, tlhitttbt.deterinination of the F4Ptily to excite hiS"MajestY acrd Wate AllieS, the Einiierors cif itusskt and Austria, and . the King of Prus. , ,ia, been but too successful I and ihat the Ministers frorn those Powers have . llemanded and received ,tlatir. Passports. .„ measure, on , the part of . .. Russia, has been attetripted to be justified bra siatetuent , of wrongs and grievancv, which haven° real 'foundation. The' • • • • • - • : Emperor of Russia had indeed proffered, his Media tion between His Majesty-and France. - His Nta. je,ty'did not ttltiqe that Mediation, but h is dent you will hcl the propriety of its not having betm. accepted tun Majesty should have been enabled. to aicertain that llw,hia was in a conditio n tti ruediato i:apanially, and until the Princikllo of itts:Basis on which France. was reedy- to Negociate were made known -to His Majesty. ,‘ No pretence of justification can be„ elledged for the hostile condua of thi3 Emperor, of . Ail `stria; or for tluit of Hi 4 Prussian Majescy....••• • Hie Nrejesty . has not 'given the slightest ground of .cothPlaint . to either tif those Sovereigns,' nor even at the moment when they have TespeCtively with- drawn their Ministers, have they assigned to .His Majesty any distill& cause fur that proceeding. " His Majesty has directed that. Copies of the Correspondence between His :Majesty's Attibaf-' soder and. the Minister for Foreign. Affairs of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, during the Negotiations at and the 'Official Note . 'the Russian Minister at this Cotirt, containing the offer of His Imperial Majesty's Mediation twten his Majesty and Frarice, together with the :Ansukr returned to .that Note by His Majesty's command ; and also ; Copies of the 01 - Ecial Notes ; Presented by the Austrian Ministers at this Court, -and of the Answers which His .Majesty commanded to he'returned to them,' shoold ; ho laid before yeu. " It is With concern that His Majesty oornmacida us to: lad= you, that notwithstanding hi 'earnest wishes.to terminate the War in which he'iS s ingit ‘ gedt with ths;,,9 dib a n 'Parte, ' His Majesty's, endea vours, 99 . 1)j)pily.for the Talc ish..Ern pi re, have been defeated, by.the Machinations of France, not less the Ehertjy of the Porte than of Great Britain. . ...„ • " But while the influence of France has been tfius .unfortunately succet-sful in preventing tTle. tcrmina „Oen :of exis'ting and.. in excitins.. pew War against this Country, His Majesty commands Ili to inform you ..that the King of SwEtiot, has Ter. silted every attempt to induce him to abandon.his A mu. that h is Crl lianco .with Great Britain; tertains ini . denbt that you will feti Stith him the sa credness of the duty which the firmness and fidelity of the King of Sweden impose upon His Majesty ; and that you will' -concur in enabling *ajcSty to discharge, it in a . tuanner worthYof this Coultry., • " 'lt remains for us, according to Hit 'Majesty's command, to • state to you that . the Treaty of counnerceand 'Amity between His Majgkty and the United States of America, which was con cluded and signed by Commissioners dul y autho. rized for that purpose, on the 31st of December, t sou, has . not taken °flea, in consequence +of the refusal of the President of the United St tte , i to ratify that instrument, .„_ . _ "—For an-unauthorised MI of Force committed ag,:tinst an AmeriCan Ship of War, HiS Mai.-;ty not hesitate to offer immediate and spontaneous re paration. But 'an at!empt:has- been made by the American Government to conned % - vith. "the Ques lion which has- -arisen out of this Ad,' _pre tensiOns inconsistent with the Maritime Rights of Great Britain; such - pretensions His Ml jesty is determined never admit. his Majesty, nevertheless, •hopes that the American fa Jvt:r' mnent be 4duated by the' samy . desire . to preservp th(o.e)ations of Peace , and Vriendship be tween the two Countries which has ever influenced Ibis l~'l~tjesty'a Condutt, and that arty difficulties in the Dis . c4sitlon pe4tiing muy ,be elfeatially Trl(Ned, `f His .Majesty has connpanded us to stateio you, that in vonsecluenee of thellecrenby whi4 France: declared the whole of His NlAjesty'it Poti*tioni to ' be in a state of Blockade, and subjekqed to Seir'ure and :Confiscation the Produce and 'MarmfaCtitres ;of His Kingdom, His Majesty re:,:otted, irr the first instance, to a measure 4)1 ruitiiated retitliatiop and that this measure having proved ineffeetual for; ittobje4, His- Majesty'his'sitice found it necessary 1 to adopt others of ireater rigour, which, He cern mansisus to spite . to you, will require the Aid of Par liament to . give them complete and "effectual opera tion. ,‘ Hifi Majesty his:gilt - et:led Corites:of the Orders: Which he has issued with the Advice - . .'C until upon this Subjc& tobelakt befare yt;l3p and . He Commands .us to recommend them to your early attelition. - • • . .‘ , . " Gentlemen of the nanse 9f, Commons, His Majesty liatt'direLied the F. , timates- for the • I • .ensuing Year to be laid before yott, in the fallest.eon fidence that your . Loyalty and Public Spirit will induce' you to make such Provision for the , Public Servicnatr theurgency of affairs May resiuire. "•,His Majesty has great satisfadion in informing: you, that, notwithstanding the Difficulties which : the Enemy .has endeavoured to impose upon the commerce . of His Subjetis, and . upon their Inter 7 course 'with other Nations, the Resources of "the . - .Country lave continued in the last. Yeardo.be ao. abundant, as to hav e p ro d uce d, both from the Pep. tnanent and Temporary ReVenne, a Receipt densi tleiably larger than that of the preceding V . ear.. " The ,sataaetion which His Albjesty - feeltr,assur; ed , you - will derive, W common with,His Majesty, from this proof of the solidify of these 'Resources, cannot but ~be greatly increased, if, ;His Majesty couti , lently hopes, it shall be found possible to raise' the necessary Supplies for the present Year withowc any material addition to the Public. Burthens. " .3ly Lards and Gentle men, " We are especially commanded to say to you, ' in the name of His Majesty, that, if ever there was a just and National War, it is that which His Majesty is now compelled to prosecute. — This Wart is in its principle purely Defensive. His' . Majesty looks but to the attainment of a Secure and .Honourable Peace; but such a Peace cartlinlj be negorihted upon a footing of pert equality.. . " ." The eyes of gurope and of the World are fixed upon the British Parliament. "if, is His . 41•Amtry conAdently trusts, you dis play in this crisis of the fate of the Country the cha ,rkkeristic-spirit of Theßritish Nation, and face un `appalled the unnatural Combination which is gather ed 'around us, Ilia MAJESTY bids us to assure you of his firm persuasion, that under dui blessing of-Di vine ProVideticO, the'StTuggle will prove successful. - and glorious to Great Britain. • "We are lastly commanded to assure you, that `J in this awful and momentous contest, you may re% Iron the firmness. of His MAJESTY, who has no ,r ) cause but that of his People, and, that His 'MAJESTY ,reciprocally IW:es on the wisdom, the constancy k orid • • the affedionate support of HiSTailiament." We this morning received Dutch Papers to. the lath inst. . . ' They contain the text of the Treaty e 4n 4 locledo,' tweet i ,Fqnse and Holland, at Fotitainblent4,: 03 the i itb of kovornbet last, some-account .of, which - Wqra;ely given, in, the proceedings of the Tigislim tiNe : 13 94i, qtr the opening 'of- their ,Session, *t: Utrecht; • The,.,preamble states, 'that . the Emprot of the. Firenolt," i:s4esii OUi: 'of making. hi illustrious brotherthe'King of Holland partkip in the aCi• vantages resulting from the stipulation in Article 7, of the Treaty' of . Tilsit, conchided on the 9th . ei. .. July, 'between France and Prussia. . • . %Article, 1. Gives the Principality of East Frieze‘ land, in., full sovereignty, to the King of Holland; :', and also the Lordihip of Jever, Which. the Etn .. peror of Itirisia Ceded 'by rile ttith:Article of. the ~1 Treaty Of Tilsit...-.By the '2d'Aiticle, the King Of . .-., Holland .ris, '-in virt.ne of the Treaties between l'iloce. and Prussia, of the 23d May, UAW; en d s . Prussia and 'Holland of the 14th Nov:. of rage year,.. put in possession of Sev coo, Hnlsen and Malburgli• :nr::Articlp 3a; 'Stipulates ihe delivery of ail titles, f documents, charts, in the archives Sce':-of thi .!; 'above territories, to the , King . of Holland..--Arti . . 1, - 'tle 4th cedes to France the territory of Loernel, and ...:'1 the southern part of the. territory of Ertol,. ia: '.4 'return for which France cedes- the northern patt Of the territory of Gestel.---tArticle. sth, gives O . * :King of LIOLL,AND sovereignty over the Lordship! , i i;: , of Kniphausen and Varel.—Article 6th cedes IMP:'`;' ,. il l ..‘,,. Fort of :Flushing -and its territory - to' France! Atticle,'r th stipulates, that Dutch 'Ships shall, liP. . - ,t .. jekinved ai French . 41 the 'Road of Flushing.;--A l6 '... ticle• 611) chargee, France with the payment of the :e:, dcbto due by the Dutch territories ceded to 'the Em'- .: : :1 . peror NAP,ot,,zoN.—..rhe remaining Artielei pro". ' ,': .vide for the maintenonett of the Deputies of the Ida of .A r aleheteti, the deli Very of the Archives ofFias b . , ' ' inoo .Frat.ce, and the ratification of ,the' Tre el l ' - withhytwo months. . A Letter from the Lower Elbe, dated Jan. 4 ) say's ," that portugal is to be un ited to Spain.—Th a -King of Erstrath is to have Sardinia and the LAN' rick Islands. The Kipg of SitIiDINIA. will be in' de tnnifted elsewhere." ; Flushing Courant observes, ." that a pew Kingdom is: to be formed in Germany, under c ll° protea,ion of the Emperor N APOLEOS ." The ' P4Poi says', " that Switzerland is expeaed soon t ° become the theatre of great events." • , The King of- SmiONY returned frotnVarsay the27t t h ult. ' ll reelargeßtlssiati,aritiles are said to be assail" . Wing. 'One 'near • Memel,' another at Bialystockt .''and a dila still M - Ore :einsiderable; a( Kaniinicki is 1 1 4wer • Podolia ! important 'intelligence 31 given ln.the Warsaw Gazette. _ YesteidaY, at two o'clock His AU JTY held • priyatq'.leevee, at the. aueen'it.Palice, .which WAs • attended by —The Archbisliciii of Canterbury, the Archbishop of YPr,. l4 : the Lord Chancellor, the First : Lord of the Treasury. „s":. Pa President or the Council, the Lord . Privy Seal , the thrr a I . Seeretatics or State, the Cluoicellor of the Exchequer, . i ta4 First Lbrd of the Adrniralty, the President or the Bualu Trade, the :Waster-General olihe Ordnance, the Speakr . „,.d. the'House of Commonsohe Lord .Chainbcilain. the Steward ; the Dukes of M ontros e a nd P ort l an d ; •Esrls ur g; t. Ailesford,* Winchelsca (in waiting), Ch a th a m. Comae'', Westmorland, and Dirimunth ; ViscoUnt CS O r, • mei ; Lords Hawkcsb ur y, H eat hti e ld (G o ld Stick), grave l Irititehinsen, Arden, Brownlow, li?iton,- ind, BPI s urst ; ihe Dean cif Windsor Niajor-C,encral Sir get,rt o Prevost ; ihe Rev. .W. Blom b erg; Messrs. Vii rs ( 11 r'',:cd in. Watling)", I . 4wkenci, Canning, Perceval, St. Lego''' . Abbott. The following had the honotr of being Preie ntea -to His INit • —.A.IhSTV Eail Grey, upon his succeeding to his. title. —'l .l " N° ll . Eatl * delivered t o Hi s M a j es ty th e Ord e r nt 0113 at It "' °lll ' 77 the bete Earl. tio4 -